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The focus on behaviors and their impact on financial success continues to grow in the media! We’re thrilled about the coverage of DataPoints’ research on wealth behaviors and financial success in Money magazine’s online and print editions this month. We also partnered with Money to create a quick quiz to help you learn about your wealth behaviors. Our clients are using behavioral science in their practice to help clients’ improve their financial behaviors. Try it for yourself and see how you …
Can you identify the wealth-building potential of your prospective or potential clients? Is the coaching and financial mentoring you give to your clients based on an objective measure of their wealth-related behaviors? We are very pleased to announce the release of our new research report, Financial Behaviors & Wealth Potential. The report describes how using behavioral-based assessments can identify and develop one’s potential for building wealth. Applied broadly, measuring Wealth Potential can allow large institutions and firms …
As you make your way into midlife you will inevitably encounter a growing number of peers who are on the verge of or who have already dissolved their marriages. For many of these couples, the self-reported cause of marital discord is disagreement over finances. In fact, financial disagreements are stronger predictors of divorce than other marital disagreements, based on research from Kansas State University. The researchers studied over 4,500 couples and examined a variety of marital and financial factors. Assuming a …
Always a teacher, my father loved uncovering hidden trends in the economy, in consumer behavior, and in marketing research, and then sharing them with others. He loved reading articles in newspapers, cutting them out, making notes all over the margins, and then turning those findings into essays on how individuals approach money. I would share articles and summaries from academic journals with him, and (after grading them) he would relate their scientific findings to …
We’re excited to announce a new partnership between Data Points and the Financial Planning Performance Lab (FPPL) at the University of Georgia and the addition of Dr. John Grable, CFP® and professor of financial planning, to the Data Points advisory board. UGA’s FPPL is the only applied clinical facility in the nation designed for the purpose of obtaining evidence regarding the effectiveness of the financial planning process. Its research on the interaction between financial …